Organization and Chapter History

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity was founded on Friday, November 17, 1911, at Howard University
in Washington, D.C. The founders of the fraternity were three students: Edgar Amos
Love, Oscar James Cooper, and Frank Coleman and their first faculty advisor Ernest
Everett Just. Omega Psi Phi was the first black fraternal organization founded at
Historically Black colleges and universities.

From its inception, the fraternity has worked to build a strong and effective force
of men dedicated to principles of manhood, scholarship, perseverance, uplift, and
capable of giving expression to the hopes and aspirations of an unfree people in the
land of the free. In 1927, the fraternity made National Negro Achievement Week an
annual observance, and it continues today as Achievement Week.

Since 1945, the fraternity has undertaken a National Social Action Program to meet
the needs of African Americans in the areas of health, housing, civil rights, and
education. In its continuing support of African-American education, the fraternity
gives an annual gift of $50,000 to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity, Inc., has supported the UNCF since 1955.